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    "description": "Philip Beard&#8217;s stunning debut novel is fifteen-year-old Tess DeNunzio&#8217;s letter to her sister, Zoe, lost to a hit-and-run driver on a day when it seemed that nothing mattered but the tragedies playing out in New York and Washington.&#160;<i>Dear Zoe</i>&#160;is a remarkable study of grief, adolescence, and healing with a pitch-perfect narrator who is at once sharp and na&#239;ve, world- worried and self-centered, funny and heartbreakingly honest. Tess begins her letter to Zoe as a means of figuring out her own life, her place in the world, but the result is a novel of rare power and grace that tells us much about ours. BACKCOVER: &#8220;Like&#160;<i>The Lovely Bones</i>, [<i>Dear Zoe</i>] is a piercing look at how family recovers from a devastating loss. Everything about this moving, powerful debut rings true.&#8221;<br>&#8212;<i>Booklist</i>&#160;(starred review)&#160;<br><br>&#8220;Beard peels away the layers of his protagonist&#8217;s anguish simply and sensitively. . . and creates real, multidimensional and affecting characters.&#8221;<br>&#8212;<i>The Washington Post</i>&#160;<br><br>&#8220;The whole novel . . . rings with truth.&#8221;<br>&#8212;<i>The Buffalo News</i>",
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